Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs:

A classic work from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History describing the mosasaurs, a group of large predatory marine lizards of the Mesozoic †‹Mosasaurs have captured the imagination of readers everywhere interested in prehistoric life, and they remain a focus of paleontological study to this...

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1. Verfasser: Russell, Dale A (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven, CT Yale University Press [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:A classic work from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History describing the mosasaurs, a group of large predatory marine lizards of the Mesozoic †‹Mosasaurs have captured the imagination of readers everywhere interested in prehistoric life, and they remain a focus of paleontological study to this day. This edition of Dale Russell’s Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs presents the complete, classic text, generously illustrated with more than one hundred drawings and photographs, and includes a new foreword by vertebrate paleontologist Jacques A. Gauthier (Yale University and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ABSTRACTS (ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, FRENCH) -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY OF CLASSIFICATION -- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF MOSASAUR SKULL -- FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF CRANIAL SKELETON -- GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSTCRANIAL SKELETON -- FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF POSTCRANIAL SKELETON -- SYSTEMATICS -- STRATIGRAPHIC AND PALEOECOLOCIC CONSIDERATIONS -- EVOLUTIONARY CONSIDERATIONS -- APPENDIX A—MEASUREMENTS -- APPENDIX B—LOCALITIES OF PIERRE MOSASAURS -- LITERATURE CITED -- INDEX -- CHARTS 1-7 -- PLATES 1,2
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (242 p) 99 b-w illus
ISBN:9781933789453

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